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Post | MintPoker posted in NLHE: Strategy against blind player

I play a friendly home game every Friday. We play 0.05/0.10 NLH with a $40 max buy in so 400BB. We have one player that as the night goes on likes to play his hands blind. He'll declare "no limping" and raise $2 - $3.5 blind preflop. He tends to only look at his cards if he gets reraised or if someone bets $3+ postflop. If he does look at his cards he plays a very fit or fold strategy post flop as he'll only continue with a pair, flush draw, oesd or better and folds otherwise.

I profit a lot off this player by 3 betting preflop with most of my opening range. A lot of the time he folds out right and if he continues my opening range is a lot stronger than his calling range. I estimate he has a VPIP of around 50% when he's not playing blind. and close to 80% when he does.

I'm wondering if anyone can advise how to play against this unique strategy. Should I widen my range as he can have any 2 cards? Should I ever bluff postflop? Should I be betting my bottom pairs or just let him bet blindly postflop until the river? Should I always bluff the flop and shut down if he continues? Should I 3 bet every hand I play with him preflop?

Lastly we are usually the last 2 at the poker table playing HU at which point he goes from blind preflop raising to all in blind preflop. For this is it correct to call with the top 50% of cards? Or is it some more obscure number like top 33%? In any case he usually does it quite often and so is it better more me just to wait for a good spot like AT+ 88+?

It's not hard to have an edge over a player that plays blind but I'd really like to fully abuse this guy for his stupidity. So any discussion to better improve my strategy against his is appreciated.

Aug. 16, 2017 | 7:09 a.m.

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